Friday, February 26th, 2010
There are lots of interesting talks at Seattle Code Camp this year (April 17th and 18th). One of the biggest things I noticed was the number of talks on parallel computing, including one on patterns for parallel programming.
I thought I’d submit something a bit different…
Fast… Faster… FASTER!
What happens when you ...
Tags: Coding, Parallel Computing, Seattle
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Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
Dates and an session schedule for this year’s patterns & practices Summit have been announced. The next patterns & practices Summit takes place October 12-16 in the Kodiak Room at the Microsoft Conference Center at Microsoft's main campus in Redmond, Washington. We’ve got a great lineup of speakers including Martin ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, NBody.net, p&p, p&p Summit 2009, Parallel Computing, Seattle
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Friday, June 19th, 2009
I was having dinner with some people at a conference and one of them turned to me and said “If you weren’t doing agile what would you be doing?” I remember looking very blank and giving a somewhat vague answer. In retrospect this was because the question ...
Tags: agile, Seattle
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Tuesday, February 17th, 2009
Some of the usual suspects who have been running the Seattle XP and Seattle Scrum groups have decided to pool their efforts and form a new group – Beyond Agile. The vision is "Beyond Agile: People making software that works". Now that’s something I can get behind.
Their first meeting is ...
Tags: agile, Events, Seattle
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Thursday, January 8th, 2009
Postponed - Due to flooding, road closures and the impending end of life as we know it. We’ll be rescheduling in April.
Tags: Events, Seattle
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Wednesday, January 7th, 2009
Postponed - Due to flooding, road closures and the impending end of life as we know it. We'll be rescheduling in April.
I'm speaking tomorrow night (8th Jan) at the South Sound .NET Users Group in Olympia on Continuous Integration and some of the tricks we've used at Microsoft to get ...
Tags: Continuous integration, Events, Proven practices, Seattle
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Tuesday, November 11th, 2008
Pat Helland gave an awesome keynote last week at the p&p Summit. I wasn't able to blog about it until today as he gave the same talk at TechEd in Europe yesterday. You can read the abstract here. He got through over sixty slides in an hour so this just ...
Tags: Green IT, p&p, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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Monday, November 10th, 2008
One of the questions I got at the p&p Summit after my distributed agile development talk was, how do you use Microsoft Visual Source Safe (VSS) with distributed teams? This is an issue because VSS was never written with distribution in mind. The VSS client connects directly to the ...
Tags: Distributed teams, Events, Proven practices, Seattle, Tools, Visual Studio
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Thursday, November 6th, 2008
On Tuesday at the p&p Summit in Redmond J.D. Meier talked for the first time about the work he's been doing on the new Application Architecture Guide 2.0 for p&p. We've just released a beta of this on CodePlex and are discussing some of the thinking behind it with the ...
Tags: Events, p&p, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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Tuesday, November 4th, 2008
Kent Beck gave the keynote at the p&p Summit today and had some interesting thoughts on strategies for evolving your design. Leap from one design to another. This seldom works but when it does it's great. Parallel implementations of different designs, get them both working at the same time ...
Tags: Events, p&p, p&p Summit 2008, Seattle
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